The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, June 29, 1887, Image 1
VOL. XLIII, ' ' WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 29, 1887, NO. 48.
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WHITE CAP KNIGHTS.
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A liKGlLAK BAND OF MASKJKD VXGI- j
L ANT MS IN INDIANA.
The I^iiv Ijjnore.1 l>y ? II:in<l of Kuttian*
AVho Seek to Make the Punishment Fit !
the Crime?Death for Serious Offenders.
The White Caps are to Southern In- j
diana what the Bald Knobfcers were to j
Missouri. Not so desperate in character j
as the latter, their organization is iden-!
tical and they have equally set law at j
defiance.
The headquarters oi the White Caps !
are in Harrison county, Indiana, but the !
organization extends over into Crawford,
Jefferson and half a dozen other counties
in the oldest civilization of the
State.
There is not a more intelligent, peaceable
or orderly community in Indiana
than Harrison county. Corydon, the
county seat, was the first capital of the
State, and its court-house, built in 1811,
was for four years its capitol. The
country is rich and schools and churches
abound. A branch railroad has been
lvnilfc to Cnrvdon. and its citizens are
prominent in State and nation.
In spite of all this, the White Caps,
or "Knights of the Switch," as they are
sometimes called, have existed for seventeen
years. The courts have been set
at defiance, ;'ails have been opened and
prisoners liberated or punished. Men,
women and children have been dragged
out of bed at dead of night, and their
homes burned before their eyes, while
they themselves have been whipped,
tortured with fiendish ingenuity and
made to flee the country.
Like the Bald Knobbers, the pro- j
fessed motive of the White Caps is the i
punishment of crime more swiftly and j
fittingly than can be accomplished in j
rnp rv>nrts_ For this reason there has !
been little outcry against them, and even i
when public indignation has beenj
arouse^ by some unusually flagrant act, j
nothing has been accomplished.
The identity of White Caps has been
revealed time and again, but not one has
ever been brought to punishment. There
have been many attempts by grand juries
to indict the offenders, but so far they
have been ineffective. For years am:
years hardly a circuit court is held in
Harrison county that the jury is not in-;
structed to investigate some case of re- j
cent occurrence, but White Caps are on !
the jury and in the court room, and j
notiung has ever been discovered in this j
way.
There have been but few confessions j
of membership; but one of these farn-1
ishes information of the regular nature :
of the organization. The White Caps, i
or "KnigMs," are organized -with regu- {
iar lodges. There are signs, grips and j
pass words?crude, of course, but i
sufficient for the recognition of and for !
communication between members. They
meet at appointed places, but not often :
at the same place, u*ncl <d L seldom &
house. Secluded groves uro tL-.-ir ?aVor- i
or>A nArA thev assemble uoon
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notification of the leader of tLe lodge.
Councils are held, expeditions determined
upon and punishments inflicted.
The sign for the assembling of these
"lodges" is the laying of crossed fence
rails in the middle of the road.
The earliest known band of this organization
was in Scott township, Harrison
county, seventeen years ago.
James N. Kean, a small farmer, accused
of petty thievery, was tied to a tree and |
severely whipped. He was their first
? victim, but cases were frequent after
that.
Of late the White Caps have been very ;
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active. me latest ouxureua. was m
Jefferson county, two miles from the
i small village of Brooksburg. A band of
masked men last Fr;day night broke into
the farmhouse of Stout Brenson, dragged
aim from bed with his wife and child,
removed the furniture from the rooms,
burned the dwelling and quietly disappeared.
Neither Brenson nor his neighbors
can assign any reason for the outrage,
but it is supposed the White Caps
were headed by a personal enemy. That
_ the party was from the organization was I
r* - - ?sHcnrn by their wearing the white masks
which have given their name.
The Knights were guilty ten days ago
of & serious offence. At midnight a
band of some twelve cr fifteen white
masks visited the house of Jos. Lynch,
a farmer who lives near Leavenworth.
They broke in the doors, seized Lynch
and his wife, entered the room where
slept his daughter Mary with her three
brothers and dragged the whole party
into the front yard. The two younger
boys broke loose and fled into the
Jinshps.
Five men held Lynch and the older
boy, and the remainder whipped the two
women with si out hickory switches.
They mounted their horses when
sufficient punishment had been inflicted
and quietly rode away.
The home of Lynch was visited and
his wife was found at work laying a rail
fence in front of the house. Her boys
were around the house, and Mary got
up out of bed to stare at the unaccustomed
visitor. Very shabbily dressed
were all. Mr. Lynch was at work at a
.neighbor's, and his wife was so frightened
that fche trembled from head to foot
when questioned, thinking the reporter
was one of the Knights.
She said the Caps had been there &
week ago and whipped her and Mary,
but sh? couldn't remember anything.
Whez: any trcuDie came ner nearc oeat
so fast that it choked her and she fell
down like dead, 2nd that was the way
with her that night. She was evidently
afraid to tell anything, but after long
persuasion made the following statement:
^ . "I've lived here all my life, and I be:
iong to good people, but I've had a hard
< time. Mr. Lynch owns a farm and I'll
~^r get this place from my mother. We've
had trouble and sickness.
"My girl Mary got into trouble, but
the young man Laid he'd marry her.
They were to be married in the fall, but
my son Willis got indicted and they
couldn't be. Then they were to be married
in the spring, but his family made
such a trouble they couldn't. His name
is Bryant Green, and he is the son of
Wesley Green, our nearest neighbor. He
says he'll marry her yet.
"The other evening Andy Green,
Bryants young brother, came "over and
borrowed our shotgun. That night the
'vigilance* came and they whipped me
and whipped Mary. I don't know who
if ttoc Thftv ffhi-Dced as in our nisrht
clothes. First one and then another
lashed ns both, ixarj's so awful hurt
I'm afraid she'll die/ I gness there's
soma people -want our little propeety and
are -jying to drive ns away."
3dary Lynch is not more than seventeen
years old and rather good looking.
She could tell no more than her mother.
Wesley Green, father of Bryant Greer:,
was found by the mporter and said that
the Lynches" kept a bad place?playing
cards and 'whooping' on Sundays. The
vigilantes, he thought, had done right
in -whipping them. Mrs. Lynch was a
respectable woman, he guessed, and the
'cutting up' hau only been going on
seven or eight months.
Public opinion in the neighborhood is
much divided over the matter, but the
general opinion is thai the Knights ought
not to have done the whipping.
The whipping of women is too frequent
in. the Knights to be pleasant.
Generally their victims are charged with
unchastity, but it is admitted that there
have been cases when whippings were
given as the result of disappointment or
malice.
In Blue River township Lcm Arnold
lived a couple of years ago. He was apparently
stout and healthy, but was
accused 01 smraessness anu letting oxi*
wife haul wood. That winter a band of
the Knights visited him at midnight,
took him out of bed and hauled up a
good supply of firewood. Arnold drew
the sled in his night shirt, and although
he was liberally whipped to keep up the
circulation he died a few weeks asterward
of consumption brought on by the
exposure.
In the same township lived Henry
Long, a lawyer, accused of being a disturbing
element, especially at elections.
He was brought to trial before a magistrate.
"While the case was in progress a
band of masked men with their coats
turned surrounded the house. Long
sprang to the door, and shot dead the
first man who entered. The victim
proved to be a respected Frenchman
named M. Henriot, whom the mob had
forced into the lead. Long tried to
shoot again but his pistol failed him.
He made a dash through the crowd, but
received several shots, from the effects
of which he died next day at Corydon.
None of the band was ever brought to
justice.
Corydon was once captured by a band
of the "White Caps." In May, 18S5,
theie was talk of corruption in the county
offices, but to the demands for investigation
no attention was paid. On
Saturday evening two men rode into
town about dark, saying fhfy had come
to see the ku-klux. Soon horsemen began
to ride into town from every road.
In half an hour between two and three
hundred had gathered upon the public
square. The men had their coats turned,
and all wore white masks, with a dozen
other forms of disguise. All the horses
had white masks over their heads, with
holes cut for their eyes and ears. A
number of horses had "white strips tied
around a fore-leg. The band rode
through every street in the town in military
order, tlien once around it, and
then disbanded. Two or three were observed
to ride into^ a livery stable and
leave their horses.
The next morning letters threatening
lmrn tlie town and Id]] everv one of
the officers unless an investigation was
ordered were received by the county
commissioners and several of the prominent
citizens.
An investigation was ordered the nest
week. Discrepancies were found in the
treasurer's and auditor's offices. Treasurer
Bowling turned over a large sum of
money he had collected, was sued on his
bond and $000 more was recovered. The
records in the auditor's office were mutilated
one night, so a comp^^/int-Km
wukl xxcv Iw uaa. AHQltor A. wr
Brewster, however, paid over 82,000
which it was thought he owed the
county.
John Jacob Miller, a well-to-do farmi
er living near Corydon, was brought be[
i'ore the grand jury as f.ne of the mob.
He refused to testify and was ordered to
j jail for contempt. He secured a few
minutes' talk with the Judge and the
prosecuting attorney, however, and the
order was revoked. Miller went home
and nothing more was ever done in the
case.
These instances could be multiplied
by the score. Queerly enough the Indionians
seem not to be much opposed
to the "White Caps" and conclude they
rarely make mistakes in punishments.
The more thoughtful, however, admit
that the organization is sometimes the
weapon oi private malice and that great
wrong is done. Still, nothing is done to
break up the "Knights."
Virginia Politics.
It is understood among the Virginia
politicians that ex-Governor Cameron
I and Senator Biddleberger are acting in
close concert in the maturing of plans to
thwart General Mahone's ambition to
succeed Bidalebergcr in the Senate.
Amen2 other reports is one that thev
contemplate making overtures to the
Democratic managers in Virginia for a
joint combination against Mahone. But
although this rumor finds ready credence
in some quarters, those in a position to
know do not believe it to have the least
foundation. Whatever influence the two
young leaders have must be in the ranks
of their own party, and there can be no
inducement for the Democrats to make
any personal alliance with them. That
they both are resolved to leave no means
untried to defeat General Mahone is undoubted.
All Virginia politicians of experience
agree that if a Republican Legislature
is elected General Mahone is
bound to be its choice for Senator.
Probably the best course for Cameron
and Eiddlebercer and their supporters
will be to pursue a course of masterly
inactivity, but they are too much interested
to adopt such a course as this.
The Virginia Democrats express the utmost
confidence in their own ability to
carry the Legislature. In the meantime
General Makone, who is apparently
keeping perfectly quiet, is undoubtedly
hard at work laying his own plans and
will be prepared to spring them in his
own time.
Speaker Carlisle is on a visit to Washington,
to take part in a conference
having far its object the framing of
measures to be introduced in the next
Congress, looking to a reduction of taxation.
It is stated that Mr. Carlisle will
confer with the President, the Secretary
of the Treasury, and a number of Congressmen,
including 3Ir. Randall. A
Washington dispatch, in reference to
l this ftonferenc?. savs "it is verv evident
to the most casual observer that "the tariff
reformers are going to have a tough time
of it in their efforts to get any legislation
; next session that at all meets the views
; of that wing of the party. It is quite as
evident that the Randalfpeople are going
to have just as tough a time to get what
they want. That they are just as far
apart as they were in the last Congress
is quite evident, and it soe-ms quite probable
that the struggle over the question
will be quite as exciting as was that of
j last winter/'
It is certainly important that something
be done to adjust the differences
in the Democratic party on economic
questions, and that something should be
j done in full time for the campaign next
i summer. The appending conference
i will be watched with interest
Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" is
the debilitated woman's best restorative
tonic.
The work <>.' victing the strikers of the
Pennsylvania salt works from tlie com pa
ny's houses was begun Thursday.
JOHN SHERMAN". HIS MOUTH.
! Talk With a Cincinnati Newspaper?Outlining
Uis Presidential Campaign.
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)
! "I notice that your brother, the general,
has written an interesting letter to
his comrades of the Grand Army at St.
Louis," I said.
"Yes, and don't you know I like that
letter a grtat deal?"
"Then you approve of the sentiments
it expresses?"
"Most certainly, and all thoughtful
men -will take the same view of the subject
when they reflect calmly upon it.
The incumbent of the Presidential omce
I is entitled to the respect of the people,
J unless he is guilty of some offense
I against public morality and the public
interests. Men may very properly differ
with those in authority as to political
views and measures of public policy, but
it will not do to carry these differences
of opinion to the point of treating a
President with discourtesy and disrespect,
simply because there may be-men
in a public assemblage or on a public
occasion who differ with him politically,
or upon the advisability or non-advisability
of measures of public policy. He
is first entitled to that courtesy that is
due to every good and law abiding citizen
on f 11 occasions, and second to that
respect which belongs, under the genius
of our institutions, to the position of
chief magistrate of a great, a prosperous,
an educated a civilized people."
"Do you hold to the opinion that if
the Force bill had passed Congress the j
alleged suppression of the ballot in the
South would have been prevented?"
"That is something that no man can
tell. We can form no adequate idea of
what the result might have been. But
I I have very serious doubts abont the
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protecting individual rights or preventing
individual wrongs where the local
government is not willing to interfere in
behalf of the citizens. Free speech, a
free ballot, and the exercise of the general
rights of citizenship are not what
may be termec3 constitutional rights, but
inherent rights, and if they are denied
in a community, tho general government
can not interfere, unless the State
authorities invoke that interference.
The failure of the State to call upon the
national government debars it from interfering
in behalf of those who are
wronged."
"Will you please illustrate that idea,
Senator?"
"Let us suppose a case here in Richmond
county. Suppose, for instance,
that a majority of our people should
combine together to deprive the Quakers,
or the Catholics, or any other re"
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ngious seer or ueuoiumu.uuu, ui tuc
right to worship occording to their religious
tenets and forms; denied them
the freedom of speech and the right of
assembling, and the State took no action,
the general government would have
no right to interfere and protect them
in their rights."
"But would it not be the duty of the
State to protect them?"
"Undoubtedly. But suppose the
State should not discharge that duty.
No appeal would lie to the general government.
It could not interfere unless
the matter should rise io the heiglit of a.
rebellion Ugainst the laws of the United
States or an invasion of its territory for
a hostile purpose. A community may
be in rebellion against tho laws of a
State, but the general government can
not interfere to crush out that rebellion
unless the State government invokes its
aid and assistance."
"How, then, would you remove the
wrongs which you claim exist in portions
of the South, and how would you
prevent the suppression of the ballot,
which you claim is suppressed?"
"I would propose a remedy, but I
rJonht, whether the rtennbliean r>artv
would come up to it."
"What is that, Senator?"
"I would have Congress enact a law
fixing the time, manner and circumstances
of electing members of Congress,
defining and providing for the
rights of every citizen at such an election,
and putting it wholly with the government
for the conduct and regulation
of Congressional elections. In other
words, the entire supervision of the election
of members, of Congress should be
with the United States government."
"But is there any warrant for that in
the constitution?"
"Clearly; that principle has been decided
by the courts on several occasions,
and tbe Supreme Court has laid down
the doctrine unequivocally, and its decisions
are in the line of its establish
merit. With such a statute enforced,
there could be no abridgement of the
elective franchise, no suppression of ballots
in elections concerning the interests
of government. Then, if communities,
or even States, should attempt to deprive
citizens of their rights of franchise,
the government could lawfully interfere,
put an end to it and rehabilitate every
citizen. With the right of every citizen
to cast his vote and have it counted for
members of Congress and electors for
President clearly established and enforced,
the same right at State and local
elections would soon force itself, although
there would be no government
interfere! ce."
"Then you would have the same law
apply in the choice of Presidential electors
that applied in the election of members
of Congress?"
"Certainly, and why not?"
"Do yon think, Senator, that Congress
will be called in extraordinary session?"
"That is hard to tell, but 1 should not
be surprised. It is true that if the
President should call an extra session of
Congress it would be a reflection upon
himself, but the financial condition of
the country demands an early assembling
of Congress."
"How would Congress improve the
financial situation?"
"By reducing taxation and preventing
the accumulation of an unnecessary surplus
in the treasury. If we go at the
rate of accumulating over $100,000,000
annually of useless and unnecessary
revenue, and locking it up in the treasury,
all our industrial and commercial interests
will be jeopardized."
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"By a revision of the tariff and modification
of the internal revenue laws."
"Will there be a revision and modification
of the tariff laws?"
"There will doubtless be a reduction
on numerous items."
"Where do you think the reduction
siionla be applied?"
"I thiiik that there should be a decided
reduction in the tariff on s-'gar,
uuu. luuii a. wvuiivj ojau uiu ?/AJ.U. v/^
American sugar sufficiently generous to
secure the production of all the sugar in
; the United States that our people may
; consume.. We have the best soil in the
! world for the sugar best and sorghum
> cane, covering almost limitless areas,
i and we have a larger area adapted to the
cultivation of West India cane as in
Louisiana. We ought to produce all the
i sugar we consume, and we may readily
; do so by a judicious tariff and liberal
bounties to producers."
If a person strikes an attitude is he liable
: to arrest for assauit and battery?
NO DANGER OF AN OUTBREAK.
ij:e kepokxed negko insikkecXIOX
IN LAUKEXS COUNTY.
Holdiug r?Ieetinjj* at >Iidnight--Xo Authority
for the Dire Xhreals Said to Have
Been Made?"Principles" of the "CoOperative
Workers of America."
(From the News and Courier.)
Laukexs, June 20.?Colonel J. H.
Traynham, of the Governor's staff, and
Captain L. E. Irby, of the Lanrens
Guards, have returned from (Jeaar
Grove, Young's township. Colonel
Traynham refuses to be interviewed, but
he will proceed to Columbia and report
directly to Governor Richardson tomorrow.
Captain Irby, however, is under
no obligation to report officially, and
has very kindly furnished me such information
as he had.
There is no doubt that some of the
negroes are organized, and that they
often hold meetings between midnight
and daylight with the greatest precautions
at secrecy, sentinels being stationed
at convenient distances from the
rendezvous. The various dire threats
that have been so widely circulated can
not be traced authoritatively to the organization.
There will be no outbreak
unless the negro leaders shall act rashly,
as the whites preserve great caution. I
neglected to say that the meetings are
held near the lines of Laurens and
Greenville counties, on the Greenville
side,
The organizations are known as the
"Co-operative "Workers of America,"
and are the offspring of the Hoover in
fluence, and many believe tiiey are lor
the purpose of extorting money from the
ignorant negroes. It costs each member
one dollar and fifty-five cents to take all
the degrees, and one dollar and fifty
cents of that amount is forwarded to
Hickory, >7. C. Several packages oi
money have been sent from Simpsonville,
Greenville county, anil Woodruff,
Spartanburg county, to Hickory, N. C.
I have secured some of the literature
of the "Co-operative Workers of America,"
issued "by order of the executive
board, H. F. Hoover, president; W. E.
Killian, vice-president; John F. Ross,
general secretary; C. L. Hawn, treasurer:
J. A. Bolch, general auditor; Martin
.solder, general committee agent." Under
cover of a small pamphlet, signed as
above indicated, I glean what purports
to be the principles and objects of the
organization.
' 'It is the proper object of government
to make laws that will secure the greatest
good to the greatest number, on the
oasis 01 aosoiute justice, wiiu an aim toward
universal liberty.
"For many years our government lias
been run to the advantage of a few, for
the benefit of a privileged class?the
moneyed aristocracy, while the masses,
the useful people, have hard burdens
hard to bear."
The objects of the organization are
declared to be:
"To elevate and dignify labor; to secure
to the laborer a just share of the
products of his toil; to instruct him in a
knowledge of his rights and his wrongs,
and his duty to his country and his fellow-man;
to use all rational means to
better his social, moral and financial condition."
To accomplish these objects they demand:
"The establishment of bureaus of
labor statistics; the abrogation of laws
that do not bear equally upon capital
and labor; the adoption of measures
providing for the health and safety of
th 5se engaged in mining, &c.; the enactment
of laws to compel corporations
to pay their employees weekly in lawful
money; the enactment of laws providing
for arbitration between employer and
employees; the enactment of laws to
proinbit tne luring out 01 convict labor
and to "work convicts on the public
roads; that the importation of foreign
convict labor be prohibited; that the
poll tax be repealed; the establishment
of a free co-operative school system; the
abolition of child labor in mines, workshops
and factories."
They demand of CoDgress: "That the
public lands, the heritage of the people,
be reserved for actual settlers, <fcc.; the
establishment of a national monetary
system; that a graduated income tax be
levied so that the greater the income the
higher the rate of taxation; the enactment
of a graduated forfeiture Act to be
levied on the estates of the rich at their
death; that the government shall organize
financial exchanges, safe deposits,
etc.; that the government construct pos
tai teiegrapn or teiepnone system, <acc.;
that United States Senators be elected
by tlie people; that the Government establish
and maintain a free ballot in
every State of the Union; a radical reduction
in the fees, salaries and perquisites
of government officials is demanded;
that the hours of labor be reduced."
Then they say:
"We are opposed to war, and consider
strikes as dangerous to society, hurtful
to the participants and contrary to the
interest of good government."
They promise co-operation -with the
Knights of Labor and all similar organizations.
Coioncl Traynliam's Keport.
After stating that, in obedience to the
order of the Governor, he visited Cedar
Grove on the 18th instant and interviewed
several prominent men in regard
to the matter, Colonel Traynham say?
"There is no doubt as to the existence
of an organization among the negroes in
that county. The object of it I could
not ascertain with certainty. The negroes
hold their meetings late at night,
say from 12 to daylight. No person is
admitted to them except members or
parties seeking to become members.
While the object of the organization is
not known, the opinion prevails that it
is in the nature of the Knights of Labor.
There is some excitement among the
whites in the community, but I could
not learn of actual threats coming from
the negroes, although there are some
rumors of threats having been made.
Som$ of th'e whites are of opinion that
tlie negroes are not working as well as
they have been, ana it is reported that
some of them have said that there would
be a change of things about the -ith of
July. Under this state of facts I feel
xuiible to make any definite recommendation
and submit the -whole matter to
your better judgment."
Altogether a False Alarm.
Columbia, June 21.?In accordance
with instructions from the home office, I
went to Laurens yesterday to investigate
the rumors which have been so
wildly circulated as to an uprising of
colored farm laborers, and I came back
to-day satisfied that nine-tenths of the
reports have been without justification.
The negroes have been tricked by
Hoover and men of his stamp into entering
a labor association, which is useless
to them and which they do not understand.
Hoover holds the fees and
i they hold the meetings. They have a
I blind idea that joining such an organiza!
tion will help them financially. If, as is
! reported, not 2 per cent, of the negroes
i in that section work for wages, it is impossible
to see what good a strike would
do them. They contract to cultivate the
crops for a share, and as the crop is almost
laid by now a violation of these
contracts would simply save money to
the farmers.
As to the talk of insurrection the people
hi the town of Laurens have no faith
in it. It is impossible to trace the
rumors to -this effect to any authentic
source; There is less uneasiness and
concern in the town of Laurens on this
subject than there is in Charleston or
Columbia. All work is going on quietly
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and the concurrent opinion of every one |
I spoke to in Laurens was that nothing |
could be ascertained or seen by going j
thus far.
The section where the labor organizations
exist is near the Greenville and
Spa^anburg lines^ The .whites are in
the E&jority/ There is no county in the
State t"where the negroes have been
longer and more completely within the
control of the whites than in Laurens.
An insurrection would simply mean their
own obliteration. Besides this, there is
no issue which could so excite them as
to make them desperate. There-' is no
conflict of wages, such as led to the rice
field strikes of 1876. They have the
prospect of gathering the finest: crops
they have had.for a decade. Their future
is full of hope for material success.
The sum of the whole matter is that
the negroes have been kept so completely
under control in Laurens county that
organization of any kind is untuiual to
them, and the fact that have now organized
for an undefined agrarian purpose
is enough to make some fooisn or
unreasonable people imagine vain things.
The people of the town of Laurens are
infinitely more concerned in the building
of their cotton factory than in this
thing, which is a sensation to those at
great distances from the scene of the reported
trouble.
Your Laurens correspondent has forwarded
so full an account that it is unnecessary
for me to say more than this.
Colonel Traynham, of the Governor's
staff, came down to-day with me from
Laurens. He refused to make any statement
for publication, but intimated that
I had about heard all the facts from
Captain Irby. My talk with Captain
Irby assisted me in forming the conclusion
set, forth above. Colonel Travnham
made a brief verbal report to the Governor
this evening and went to bed. His Excellency
could not be found at home,
nor would he be seen for a moment at
the meeting of the trustees' of the University,
which he is attending and which
will last for hours yet, but it may be
confidently assumed to-night that Col.*
Traynham's conclusion agree* substantially
with those of Captain Irby, and
tnat neither he nor the Governor is
alarmed at the prospect.
| All Quiet in Spartanburg.
Spaetanbukg, June '21.? Further investigation
to-day strengthens me in my
opinion that the negroes of this county
ddnot contemplate a strike, or any violigpce.
They are not fools enough to
wait until their crops are nearly finished/
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wim me nuesfc pruopeuto uucj uo?o uau
for years, to begin a revolution that
would damage them in every possible
way. _ _
IXVEXTOK KEELY'S IHOTOK.
He Says it is Nearly Finished?Renewing
His Past Promises.
Inventor John W. Kee]y has just
issued a printed card of instructions to
those who may visit his workshop during
the hour set apart for visitors. In it he
says: "I am now engaged in what I term
the process of 'graduating' or adjusting
my engine, by which I mean securing a
regulated and uniform speed or motion
of it. This, when effected, will finish
my work, which will be known as. the
'Sympathetic Etheric Motor,' and my
new force will then be adapted to commercial
purposes. Visitors will observe,
on entering my shop, my power-developing
structure, termed the 'Sympathetic
Etheric Liberator,'which hangs suspended
on the second floor in a tubular
ring, and fiom which a wire of small
diameter, and made of alternate sections
of platinum and silver, extends to au attonliTYiflnf'
ofliTOil fn /vno ATir? nf t.VlA IjVlftff".
of the engine which I am graduating."
He then goes on to explain the advantages
of his "liberator," and to expatiate
on the arduous duties he has
been compelled to perform to reach the
successful control of the motor on-which
he is working. He repeats the promises
he has made for the last ten years to explain
by diagrams, etc., which he shall
publish to the world, the wonderful
mechanism of his motor?when he has
completed his present process of adjustment.
Money Made in Coffee.
Among the people in Wall street who
do not put on mourning over the break
?* " V T7 _ _1_ 3
in tne pnces 01 conee m j.\ew iors ana |
in wheat in Chicago are the followers of
Henry Clews & Co. Mr. Clews said recently
that his firm had paid out to customers
over $200,000 in profits un ccffee
deals, and that the decline in wheat had
made a difference of over $1,500,000 in
the credits of his office. "We do a
strictly commission business," said Mr.
Clews; "but we do not propose to allow
our customers to buy or sell through
this house unless in our judgment they
will realize returns for the money they
will invest. A week or ten days ago the
representatives of one of the local agencies
came to me and said he had been
deputed to get the opinion of the principal
brokers of the street upon the situation
and prospects. I told him I was a
bear on everything, and told him why I
believed stocks would go lower, and why
the wheat corner and the coffee corner
had reached about the limit. He
laughed and said I was alone, for all the
j men lie Ma seen Denevea in mgner j
prices all around. I have not seen him
since, but I feel much like laughing myself
to-day. It is not luck; it is the result
of close study of the situation.
History repeats itself here as well as
elsewhere. It has done so now; it will
do so hereafter; and we have not seen
the lowest prices yet. Wheat will go
much lower, for the Chicago corner people
are knocked out for at least a year to
come." .
G. 31. B.
Walking down Broadway is very pleasant
when you feel well, and T K
never felt better than when his friend asked
him how he got over that severe cough of
his so speedily. "Ah, my boy," said T ,
"G. M. D. did it!" And his friend wondered
what G. II. D. meant. He knew it
did not mean a Good Many Doctors, for
T ? had tried a dozen in vain. "1
have it." said he, just hitting the nail on
the head, "you mean Dr. Pierce's 'Golden
Medical Discovery,'" or Gold Medal Deserved
as my friend J S always
dubs it." Sold by druggists.
The more you puff a cigar the smaller i:
becomes And that is the case with some
' men.
A lilt AVE YOUNG WOMAN.
I Mary ".Vakeiield. the Heroine of the Chans|
j:lain Disaster.
| Chicago. June '2?.?The schooner Ka!
cine, the crew of whicL rescued the survivors
of the Champlain disaster, arrived
here last evening. At the time the
Champlain caught tire the Kacine was
lying alongside a pier six mile3 from
Charlevoix. Captain Hanson -woke up,
saw the burning steamer, and sent part
of his crew in a yawl to rescue the perishing
passengers. With the remainder
of his crew he ran down the beach to an
old tish boat, launched it, and started
for the wreck. The boat had not been
used for a long time, and leaked. When
about half way out to the Champlain
Captain Hanson came across a young
woman who was swimming toward the
shore with a child. This was Miss Mary
Wakefield, of Charlevoix. She had
jumped overboard from the steamer,
with the six-year-old child of Captain
Kehoe clasped in her arms. Grasping a
broken fender,, she clung to it, Mid
seizing ttie clothang of the child in' her
teeth, she bravely struck out for the i
shore. Captain Hanson says she is the
pluckiest woman he ever saw in his life. |
When lie started to take her and the
child into his boat she told him to hurry
away to others, as she could take care of
herself. She reached the shore in safety,
and when another of the shipwrecked
passengers was taken from the boat,
in an almost frozen condition, she took
off her flannel underskirt and wrapped
it around him.
When Captain Hanson reached the
wreck the yawl of the Bacine had picked
up fifteen persons. He saved six more,
and seventeen others floated ashore by
aid of planks and life preservers.
Among the bodies picked up by Captain
Hanson was that of Mrs. Ella
Cooper Smith, of Charlevoix. It was
found floating on the surface of the lake,
and the position of the life preserver
showed Mrs. Smith had worked it down
so as to keep as much of her body as
possible out of the icy water. Becoming
benumbed and fatigued, her head had
fallen over until it was submerged, and
she was drowned.
In speaking of Captain Casey. Captain
Hanson said he never knew what courage
in man meart until he witnessed the
heroic fortitude displayed by the brave
commander of the Champiain.
The Cotton Movement.
From the New York Financial Chronicle's
cotton article of last week the following
figures are gathered relative to
the movement of the stapie during the
past weeit:
The total receipts readied 3,.>19 bales,
against -1,032 bales last week, 7,599 bales
tlie previous week, and 9,Too bales three
weeks since; making the total receipts
since the 1st of September, 1886, 5,183,-168
bales, against 5,232,830 bales for the
same period of 1885-6, showing a decrease
since September 1, 1886, of 49,362
bales.
The exports for the weekreach a total
of 8,528 balps, of which 2,S87 were to
Great Britain, ? to France, and 5,641
to the rest of the continent.
The total visible s upply of cotton, as
made up by cable and tekfijgjgfr -or the
week is as follows:
Total of Great- Brit3Hft3-.^r870,000
bales, total of continental stocks 392,600
bales?making.a total of European stocks
of 1,262,600 bales. The total visible
supply for the world' is 1,993;970 bales;
of this number 1,246,370 are American
and 747,600 East Indian, etc.
The imports into continental ports
during the week were 25,000 bales.
These figures indicate a decrease in the
cotton in sight of 70,917 bales as compared
with the same date of 1886, and
a decrease of 3,300 bales as compared
with the corresponding date of 1885.
The receipts at interior towns for the
week were 2,421 bales. Old interior
stocks have decreased 4,661 bales, and
were 62,164 bales less than at the same
period last year.
The receipts from the plantations,
being ihe actual movement, not including
the overland receipts nor Southern
consumption, of cotton that reached the
market through the outports for the
week were 3,549 bales. The total receipts
since the 1st September are 5,181,506
bales.
Cotton in sight 6,309,203 bales, being
a decrease, as compared with last vear,
of 110,012 bales.
Mr. Ellison's cotton figures, brought
down to 1st June, give the taking by
spinners of Great Britain 2,514,000 bales
and the continent 2,627,000 bales, a total
of 5,141,000 bales, against the tctal of
preyious year of 4,55S,000 bales. The
average weight oi deliveries in Great
Britain is 4-iU pounds, against 454 pounds
during the same time last year. Continental
deliveries average 436 pounds,
against 447 pounds last year.
In reviewing the speculation in futures
during the past week, the Chronicle says:
The speculation in cotton for future I
delivery at this market has been fairly
active for the week under review, but
the course of prices has continued quite
unsettled, besides again showing some
irregularity as between the current; and
the next crops. A feature has been the
weakening of the speculative confidence
in September deliveries, which was at
one tune very strong. Thus-on Saturday
there was an advance for every
month cxcept September and October.
On Monday a general decline took place
in the latter dealings, due in a measure
to sympathy with the coffee market, with
which many members of our Cotton Ex
change hold close relations* On Tuesday
a steadier opening was followed by
a fresh decline, and then a partial recovery.
Wednesday the market was active,
but closed slightly easier. On Thursday
a better report irom juiverpooi una improved
tone and values in other speculative
circles gave renewed apirit to the
speculation for the rise in cotton. Friday
there was a sharp decline, with the
close at about the lowest ligures, due
again, it was almost uniformly admitted,
to sympathy with the decline in coffee. >
Cotton" on "the spot has been quieter.
The purchases for Prussia embraced 2,000
bales additional taken on Friday after i
'Change, making 9,000 bales in ah; after i
which there was a fair demand for heme
consumption.
The Philadelphia Se>"ti.yix is edited
by colored men. It agrees with Senator
In galls that the negro has proven a failure
as a voter, to the extent, at least,
tbat he has "voted blindly against the
negro's ov.-n interests, and for the main- i
Tv>nir\r in?t. cnr-li mpn as S^'nafnr Yv.- !
galls, who voraciously gobble all they
get, and smite the hand that gives it."
The Sentinel further declares that the
hour of real emancipation is yet to
come?the liberation which shall follow
the breaking away from false friends.
A correspondent wants to know "how
to preserve the hair.'7 One way is to have
it worked into a watch chain.
The ideal of the American is not yet
right. Our almighty great man is the almighty
smart man." Vv'e need to teach
morality as much as Greek and Latin.
The most dangerous man is the smart man
without good morals.
Terry's Lucky Widow.
There is a long and curious story behind
the announcement made, with a
good deal of sensational flourish, that a
fortune of .$7,000,000 has been left to
Mrs. Kate Louise Terry by her late im.sbarul,
Ivan Petro Terry, who died in
Paris, where the lucky widow is still
living. The ?7,000.000 will probably
be cut down a good deal, but if the fortune
reaches half that sum Mrs. Terry
is an extraordinarily fortuuaic woman.
Of the lady the Hartford Times says:
Her life up to the present time,"if accurately
depicted in a no.'ei, would
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mr.Kc interesting reading. i\:i:e i/ju:sc
Norman (her maiden name) came
hither from England in childhood with
her father, who settled in Brooklyn,
:md eventually became a judge there.
She is now about 32 years of age. ",andof
good figure, and a style that
lias a good deal of dash in it. I; was
to her good looks and her style that she
owed her court-room marriage to Ivan
P. Terry. Before that she had been the
wife of the nb'torfous bank burglar,
Charley Bullard, who is now said to be
serving a long term of imprisonment in
Belgium. The marriage to Bullard took
place in England, where she was visiting,
when she was about 1G years old.
Bullard then went by the name of
Charles Wells. He was a smart fellow,
with :i fine address and plenty of spending
money, and the girl Lie married
knew nothing about his real character,
lie took, her to Paris, where he opened
a sort of American bar-room on a
showy serJfi, and installed his pretty
young wife as cashier. She naturally
attracted a good deal of notice, and the
venture prospered for a while. Bullard
<rnvft it nr>. hnrvp.vnr. and bronchi' his
r> " ry ?r ? ??
wife to New York. It was then she
found out who and what he was.
Another wife soon turned up. and the
couple separated, never to m?t again.
The*second wife took her two children
and went off on her own account How
she lived till she met Terry docs not
appear to be known. He was the son
of a millionaire sugar-planter m C:tba,
and had made some money himself.
They were married without any loss of
time, but the subsequent proceedings
were not entirely harmonious. A number
of little unpleasantnesses occurred,
and led up finally to a poiice-court sensation.
Mrs. Terry was of a decidedly
jealous turn, and once on going through
her husband's pockets, after the maniTer
of wideawake wives, she found a gushing
letter from a young woman explaining
why a certain appointment was not
kept. It is needless to say that the letter
did not improve Mrs. Terry's state
of mind. After thinking a while she
set a trap for the young woman, and
caught her in it Then she called on
her at her home to give her a talking
to, and got turned out for her pains.
That warmed her up still more, and her
:ext step was to make a charge ugaiiist
the young woman of appropriating certain
money that she said she missed.
Then came the police-court sensation,
in which the two women played prominent
mrf! ftJiH th?? rwmrlavj
hud a* line time writing up. After a
great deal of wrangling the charge was
dismissed, and. the second woman, a
Miss Atwood, soon arter retaliated by
suing Mrs. Terry for slander. She
claimed. '525,000- clam ages, and a jury
awarded her $300, but as Mrs. Terry
had no property in her name to levy on
the judgment is still unpaid. Miss Atwood
will try pretty hard to collect it
when Mrs. Terry returns to L\ew York
as a millionaire widow, if she does return.
Her husband's will has been received
'.here for probate, and she will
probably follow it. The unborn child
is expocted next month.
A. Real English "Masher."
A real English "masher" is among
us!
The fair-haired, briglit-lookingyou b,
with beardless face, handsome features
and dapper figure, who stepped nimbly
from the broad decks of the Etruria
yesterday on her arrival at the Cun:ird
dock was Lord Grey de Wilton, the oi ly
sou of the Earl of Wilton, and heir to
one of the richest and oldest properties
In England.
"Your first visit?'' queried a reporter
who saw him at his hotel.
"Yes," he replied briskly, "I iiave
come over just to see the country."
"Have you any plans?"
"Well, none very defined. I intend
sroing out into society, as I have brougnt
over a quantity of letters of introduction."
"Will you hunt?"
"Yes, rather! I am told that you have
several good hunts here, among others
at Rockaway and elsewhere. But what
[ want more than anything is to get
some good shooting. There is sonic
very good duck shooting around New
York, I understand, and then I propose
<roing out west to get some large game.
My stay here is indefinite, and depends
on how. much amusement I can iind."
"Has anything struck you since your
arrival iu the city?"
"There is one thing which looks to me
particularly funny, and that is all those
.vires you have overhead. Another, the
large size of your hotel buildings. I
have been wandering about all the aft
ernoon enjoying your brisk atmosphere.
Just fancy anyone strolling about iu
London late on a December afternoon!
Il seems to me that this climate must
be very healthy."'
Lord Grey de Wilton then expressed
anxiety to know the winner of the Manchester
November Handicap, for he is
zealous in all turf matters.* Kis lordship
takes much interest in the stage,
although perhaps in the lighter form of
entertainment, He has also had political
aspirations, and contested the
southeastern division of Lancashire at
the last election, when he was beaten
oy a majority of 457 votes.
He is 2d years old, unmarried, and :i
sireat favorite m London society, and i:;
well known at Cannes and other fashionable
resorts in the south o? France.
-X. Y. Herald.
Tired Out.
When natural gas was lir?* made use
of in Pittsburg for fuel die agent of a
ompanv wanted an old Dutchman to
become a customer.
-I tell you aboudt dot," replied the
old man. a> he felt of the back of his
head, "it vhas all right if nature makes
lot "as for nothings^ but I haf discovered
dot when somebody vhorks for
In s he gets tired oudt by and by
} /-x*? i ctrt L-a tliot inolroc rnur
tic:r.I shwim."
Some of tho natural gas wells are
now oa a strike which will probablv
have no end.? Wall Street News.
A St Louis clergyman preached last
Sunday night against tiie ballet in
opera. He probably thinks, and rightly
too, that old ladies should be at home
ia the evening.?New Haven News.
A "turned u" in the word beau never
worries a Boston girl. She is equally at
home with the 'beau or the bean.?
Surinafield Union.
LOMMjys MWW LIUJN.
BUFFALO L*i?. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
FOR JL'AZROXS OF THE WILD WEST.S
A Sample of the Yarns He is Tellinj His
Royal Friends?How He Got His TitleOther
Facts in the Career of Mr. Cody.
I was born in February, 1812, in the
State of Iowa. I need not go into detail
respecting my family, and can dismiss
my youth briefly by saying that when I
was not on a horse I was just being
thrown off one. I soon became a pretty
smart rider, and my practice with a gun
was pretty good, too. I was 12 years
when I killed my first Indian. It happened
rather sudden. I was waiting out
by the river, near Fort Kearney, ona
night about 10 o'clock. My companions
had got on ahead somehow, and I was
quite alone, when looking up toward the
bluff bordering the river I saw, illuminated
by the moon, the head and shoulders
of a live Indian, watching me with
evident interest. Now I had heard
many stories of the doings of the red
men, and had also been inculcated with
a thorough distrust of their ways; so,
quickly coming to a conclusion as to
what 1 shoutd do, I brought my gun to
my shoulder, and aiming at the head,
fired. The report sounded louder than
usual in the silence of the night, for it
was past 10 o'clock, and was followed by
a war whoop such as could only be built
up by an Indian, and the next instant
over six feet of dead Indian came down
splash into the river.
Snrcn after this I went to business. I
took to the plains, and in the employ of
Messrs. Russell and Simpson, soon
learned the ins and outs of the wild life
led with horses and cattle-driving teams,
riding express ponies, and getting to
know the land. Among other things, I
somehow found out how to hunt buffalo,
a sport second to none, if you know
how. I shall never forget the faces of
live officers I met o.i the prairie once,
now many years ago. They were after
a herd of buliklo. So was L We exchange^
views. I gave them my ideas,
they gave me their sympathy. "You
surely don't expect to catch buffalo with
that Gothic steed," said they.
"T am going to try," I said.
"You'll never do it, man alive," said
the captain. "It wants a fast horse to
overtake buffalo."
"Does it?" I responded.
"Yes, but you can come with us, if
you iike."
And I did like. There were eleven
buhalos in the herd, and while the
officers rode straight at them, I headed
the leaders and got up to them with
ease. The horse which my companion
had been chaffing was the famous Brigham,
who knew as much about the sport
as I did; he speedily did his part of the
business. A lew jumps Drougnt us up
to the herd. Raising "Lucretia Borgia,"
my trusty weapon, 1 aimed at the first
animal, lired and brought him down,
Brigiiam, like the ideal animal that he
was, carrying me rapidly up to the next
brute, not ten feet away; and, when I
had dropped him, bounded on to the
next, and so on, until I had slain the
whole eleven animals, and then my
horse stopped. I dismounted to regard
my work with a feeling of satisfaction.
Inose officers rode up shortly, and I
shall never forget their expression as
they surveyed the work of five minutes
lying around.
My horse Brigham was an exceptionally
intelligent brute. He took the
keenest delight in sport, and invariably
took pains to aid me in getting game.
AII.he expected of me was to do the
shooting. The rest was his work. He
would always stop if the buffalo did not
fall at the at the first shot, so as to give
me a second chance; but if I did not
bring him down then he would go on
disgusted.
It was in 1867 that the Kansas Pacific
track was in the bufialo country, and the
company was employing over twelve
?? - 1 ?-? * ? +V?a
minarea meii in uie mojuug ui uw ivaw.
The Indians -were very troublesome, and
it was not always easy to get sufficient
supplies of fresh meat for the men. It
was abeut this time that Messrs. Goddard,
the contractors to the constructors,
made me a handsome ofier, provided kI
would undertake to hunt for them. They
required twelve bufialos per diem. The
work was somewhat dangerous, owing to
the Indians, but the terms were handsome?00
per month. I look the offer,
and in lt#s than eighteen months, during
which time my engagement lasted,
I killed 4,280 bufialos single-handed,
and had many scrimmages with the Indians.
and hairbreadth escapes. It was
during this period of my career that I
had my celebrated buffalo killing match
with Billy Comstock, the noted scout,
then at Jb'ort Wallace. The terms were
settled as follows: We were to hunt one
day of eight hours, from 8 a. m. to 4 p.
m. The stakes were ?500 a side, and
the man who kiiled the most buffalo was
to be declared the winner. The contest
took place twenty m;1.es east from Sheridan,
und many thousand people came
from ail jjarts to see the sport. We were
fortunate in finding animals, and had
plenty of sport. We made three runs
each, ana i killed sixty-nine bufialos,
my rival being content with forty-six.
Not a bad da\'s work, a day which is an,
historical one for rue, inasmuch as since
then I hive invariably been referred to
in all parts of the civilized world as
^ r>?n
JDUil&lU JJ-LLi.
The Philadelphia. Times wants to
know, if the proposition to return the
battle iiags to the States by whose
soldiers they were carried raised such an
outcry, what will be the effect of the
proposition now made by the soldiers of
the Philadelphia Brigade to return to
the veterans of Pickett's Division the
iiags captured from them at Gettysburg?
What will General Faircliild and the
other excitable patriots have to say to
this? Will they declare that the soldiers
who stood at the stone wall on that critical
3d of July when the course of history
was decided, are now no better than
"rebels" and "cowards," and the like?
Or will they not be forced to acknowledge
that the real soldiers, the men who
did the fighting, believe that the war is
over ai:d the Union restored, and that if
anybody should be called hard names, it
is the demagogues who will not let us
have peace?
?<jtia*k Fritters.
One pint of cooked find well-mashed
squash, one pint of milk, two eggs, a little
salt and flour enough to make the batter
stiff enough to turn on the griddle, and
not too thick. The addition of a teaspoonful
of baking powder will tend to make
them lighter. Bake on a griddle.
Let your talk be always adapted carefully
to time and place. Don't prate about
homeopathy to a doctor, or the blessings of
celibacy to a young lady engaged to be
married. " ?